Table of Contents Women pay more... Student news from across Opinions Lindquist ... page 3 National orientation ... page 3 Riding on the sidewalk to survive page 4 Arts and Entertainment Underwater Sunshine Kim’s cat... page 11 Blue Rodeo ... page 11 Green Shadows, the book Ceedees, the music Creative ... page 11 How to get to the forth floor and see art ... page 11 ... page 12 ... page 13 Poetry, poetry, poetry ... page 10 Classifieds If you want to buy, or if you want to sell, or if you just want to watch ... page 15 David Lam We prove we know how to find Coquitlam: the launching of our brand new Coquitlam Campus section pages 8-9 Advertising Siwash and Thy Bless’d Kitchen Orca Bay ... page 6 The OP, Alien Autopsy, and Sexuality Submissions Beepers ... page 12 BC Tel” =... pageil3 Jackhammer ... page 14 Time Out ... page 16 ... page 4 ... page 12 Letters Dear Other Press: What’s with this Douglas College secret hand signal?! After having so many articles on feminism and sexuality issues I thought you would have known that the hand signal symbolizes the female vulva/genitalia and therefore women empowerment. You’re probably familiar with the hand signal for male power—the raised fist, symbolizing the phallus. If you meant the Douglas College hand signal to be meaning female empowerment as well, fine with me—but isn t that unfair to all the boys?! Luna A quick poll of the office on what the hand signal for male power is led to some confusion. Obviously we're not sending these guys to enough men’s movement retreats. The point of the triangle hand signal was supposed to be the ubiquitousness of the shape chosen for the logo. We were aware that it was close to the symbol for feminism (and the symbol for recycling, the FVR Library Association logo, the Guess symbol, the triangle on the American dollar... (although none of these are technically hand signals)). On the other hand, while the female empowerment hand symbol is the Douglas College hand signal inverted, this does not necessarily make them the same thing. —ed. Dear Editor: I'd like to protest the severity of the provincial government’s recent welfare reforms. The NDP has gone so far overboard in its effort to appease the right that it is inviting a whole host of social ills in its wake as welfare recipients scramble to keep up with their amazingly. demanding job-search requirements within the confines of their pitiful living allowances. Under the “BC Benefits” program which has been introduced in stages since last November, “employable” people requiring social assistance have had their benefits cut to a maximum of $500 per month: $325 of it earmarked for shelter, and a mere $175 for everything else. They are also now being expected to apply for about a hundred jobs a month in order to retain those “benefits.” But for at least the firsdt sven months, they don’t receive any assistance in their job searches in the way of transportation allowances or office support; after that, they only get help with their resumes and job goals for a scant few weeks in job clubs. Just think about it: after rent, they have less than $6.00 per day to both live on and search for employment with. Six dollars a day: for three meals? Maybe, just barely. But for three meals, plus all the expenses to apply to five jobs per Editorial He walked in last week, just to say hi. Not to the OP, mind you, but to the school in general. His name is Dr. Lloyd Morin, and he is the interim President of Douglas College. He follows in the footsteps of Susan Hunter-Harvey, who resigned her post at the beginning of summer after eight months on the job. He’s got great credentials, but then, at this level of competition, everyone does. (Like they’re going to get someone just out of College Presidential School for the job. Ha!) And he doesn’t officially start for another two weeks, so no one, save the committee that hired him, knows anything about him. What sort of job will he do at Douglas? The proof, as the say, will be in the pudding. As interim president, his job is to keep the college on an even keel; to man the rudder; to keep ‘er strait and true, to do all those other sailing clichés. Basically, it means that he can’t do anything really radical. Which is unfortunate, because what DC needs is a President who is willing to give the school a real good shake-up. Someone with some radical tendencies. Someone who isn’t afraid to be different, and to take a chance. And someone with the power and strength of character to pull it off. Hunter-Harvey tried, sort of. But she talked a talk that didn’t translate into reality. Maybe her inability to cause serious change lead to her resignation. Speculation abounds. But the fact remains; this school needs a risk taker. No matter what the provincial NDP says, they won’t be able to keep federal cutbacks to transfer payments from effecting this college. Oh sure, maybe tuition isn’t going up, but they’re making up for it in a variety of ways. Cutbacks. 104% registration criteria. Overcrowding classrooms and making up for quality of education with quantity. I don’t blame them for trying, but this school can’t depend on the government for everything. It needs to look to alternative means of education. Alternative ways of procuring funds. This school needs to look to the future and embrace it. Even current resources are under-utilized. This month’s Insider, DC’s staff and faculty newsletter, features a story proclaiming the high-tech marvels of Douglas, but on closer inspection you will find that very few of these high-tech wonders filter down to the students. The faculty was given email with the assumption that it would increase communication between them and their students, but the students remain unwired. But these things can’t be done. Not until a suitable replacement is found. Lloyd Morin is no more than an administrator; someone to take the pressure off of the vice- presidents. Someone to reinforce the status quo. Not destroy it. It’s not his fault, it’s the job he was hired to do. But look on the bright side: At least he’s not pretending that he will be around for longer than eight months. If only Hunter- Harvey had been that honest. day: the cost of the phone calls, the stationery, the postage, possibly the computer time rentals to work on the customized cover letters, and the faxes? Forget it; the faxes alone run $3 or $4 per application, and increasingly, they’re the only way to get in touch with employers u\running ads. And if they are lucky enough to land an interview somewhere away from the impoverished neighbourhoods they have to reside in, the recipients must spend their food money on transportation to get there. And forget about the money for some decent clothing or even a good haircut— it’s just not there. So I ask you, how are these people supposed to find decent jobs if they don’t have enough resources to both conduct a thorough job search and get sufficient nourishment to keep their strength up enough to make a good impression? They can’t, of course, and that’s what’s really insiduous about the NDP’s new “Youth Works” and “Welfare to Work” programs: they’re not geared towards getting people decent jobs, but just any job at all. Hence, the new requirement that recipients cannot turn down any job offer, again, on pain of losing their benefits for at least a month—no matter how reprehensible the employer, how demeaning the work, or how alien to their values. Thus, rather than protecting our most disadvantages and vulnerable citizens from exploitation and abuse, our government is now actively driving them into the clutches of unscrupulous employers such as mid- level marketers and boiler-room telemarketing managers who encourage them to victimize their friends, families, and our elderly and more vulnerable citizens with overpriced or unwanted merchandise (such as vaccuums or other home cleaning services, or deleted cassettes, or promotional sports or entertainment tickets, etc.). Barring that, many are going to become ill from the stress, and end up costing us more in medical bills, and many others are already resorting to property crimes to provide for their needs, instead. In the long run, we’re all going to suffer from this attempt by the NDP to outflank the “Free Enterprise” parties—all except for the most shameless employers who can have our sons and daughters for the asking. Warren Dow Join the conspiracy. 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